[Imc-wales] greetings/Network meeting report

[Gwent Anarchists]

The proposal seems the best way forward, sorry for our
lack of involvement...

--- genny <vg at genny.force9.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> Hi Davey - welcome to the group.
> 
> I was at the united kollectives network meeting in
> London on Saturday.  
> The minutes aren't up yet, but should probably
> appear here soon:
>
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkNetworkMeeting2008London
> 
> Anyway, we talked a bit about how to get a page for
> Wales on indymedia, 
> and I made a proposal which was agreed by the
> network - although then it 
> turned out that we might have more than one way of
> doing it...
> 
> The proposal was that we should set up a temporary
> page for Wales on the 
> existing uk network, so that when anyone in Wales
> posts a report, they 
> can tick Wales as well as uk.  That way, reports
> would appear on the 
> main uk site as well as on our own page for Wales.
> We could also write 
> our own features on major campaigns etc. in Wales
> and these would appear 
> in the middle column. Given our current problem with
> getting 
> translations done, this page would be English only
> at the beginning, but 
> with a 'sticky' feature at the top explaining that
> we're trying to get 
> more people involved including people who can
> translate, write reports 
> and moderate in Welsh so we can develop a Welsh
> language interface too.
> 
> So that proposal was agreed.  However, there was
> also another proposal 
> that we could consider, and that was that we contact
> the people who run 
> indymedia.ie (Ireland) to see if it might be better
> to work with them.  
> Given that we don't really have any techies (at last
> count) to get this 
> working, we would need to ask whether they could
> support us with this, 
> whether they have space to host our page on their
> servers and so on.  
> Indymedia Bristol - not a million miles from Cardiff
> - also use the same 
> system and will be able to offer some help. I'll try
> and make some more 
> enquiries about this in the next week or two, but in
> the meantime, it 
> would be good to have some feedback from people in
> Wales about this 
> proposal.  I don't want to waste my time if people
> aren't keen or don't 
> have the time to get involved.
> 
> Genny
> 
> Davidbarlow641 at aol.com wrote:
> >  dreetings, well im davey,some of you allready no
> a little about 
> > me,and hopefully i can be of some help,in our
> communitys and further a 
> > field. regards dAvey
> >
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